Melanie and Martina Grant are a pair of British twin actresses, presenters and singers best known in the UK as presenters/cheerleaders on long-running gameshow Fun House and in Japan for their album A Twin Thing.
Melanie is now called Melanie Bambridge. Her husband was a firefighter who died of leukaemia in 2009.[1]
Martina also married; her married name was Martina Deal but she divorced in 2009. She now lives with her new partner, they had a baby[2] boy in March 2012 and in February 2015 they had a girl.[3]
In August 2016 Martina married her partner Ben Freebury.[citation needed]
Television
In 1986 Melanie appeared alongside Bill Oddie as a dancer in ITV comedy From the Top.[4]
In 1987 they both appeared in an episode of a BBC cop show called Rockliffe's Babies credited simply as 'Girl in flat'.[5]
From 1989 until 1999 they appeared alongside Pat Sharp in all 11 series of long-running gameshow Fun House as cheerleaders/co-presenters.
In 1993 they appeared as themselves in an episode of STV talk show Scottish Women discussing twin related issues.[6]
In 1993 (S1 Ep 17) and 1995 (S3 Ep 28) they made a guest appearance on ITV Saturday morning show What's Up Doc?.
In 2011 they also appeared on a segment of This Morning called Guess the guests.
In January[7] and May[8] 2013 they made guest appearances on Soccer AM.
On 19 May 1999 they released an eponymous album called A Twin Thing[19] which was released in Japan but was less successful elsewhere. The track Keep On Pumping was also released as a single[20] and on various compilation albums.[21] The album was released on iTunes[22] and Amazon[23] on 21 July 2014. The download version does not include the two remixes of Keep On Pumping.
